Talking Scared

Neil McRobert
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Talking Scared

Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote them.

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    217 – Del Sandeen & Giving Southern Gothic Ick!

    Send us a textAs we gear up for Halloween, we get all gussied up in Gothic. Del Sandeen joins me to talk about the curses, colorism, and all the many influences in her Southern Gothic debut This Cursed House. It’s a novel that twists the sub-genre’s typical reliance on race, for a more subtle, pernicious form of prejudice. But it’s also chock full of all the haunted house–cursed family–secret rooms–and weird incest that you could want from a truly Gothic novel. It’s a damn goo...

    1 h 7 min

  2. 15 OCT.

    216 – CJ Leede & The Shame of the Human Animal

    Send us a textThings get disinhibited on Talking Scared this week, when CJ Leede joins us for a conversation about her new novel, American Rapture. The novel plunges middle America into a torrid apocalypse, as a sexual plague spreads across the nation, creating “lust hell on earth.” In this framework, C.J crafts a story of sexual awakening, sacrifice, found family, hypocrisy and cruelty. It’s a book that is both extreme and comforting in equal measure. We talk about that crazy...

    1 h 13 min

  3. 8 OCT.

    215 – Sofia Ajram & The Architecture of Despair

    Send us a textHold hands, we need to stick together. This week’s episode plunges us into the impossible and endless dark, with Sofia Ajram and her experimental, existential headf*ck of a debut novella, Coup de Grâce. It’s the tale of a man who gets lost in an endless subway station – and the monsters inside (and inside himself) We talk about everything from the mythical history of mazes, to legends of the early internet, the mystery of Elisa Lam and what Sonic the Hedgehog has...

    1 h 18 min
  4. Off Book #4 – Kate Siegel

    5 OCT.

    Off Book #4 – Kate Siegel

    Send us a textI started Off Book so that I could speak to some of the brightest dark stars in the wider universe of horror. This week that plan comes to absolute fruition – ‘cos Kate Siegel is Talking Scared! Yes, Kate Siegel, scream-queen of our generation, horror maven, acting superstar and now director of extraterrestrial found-footage nightmare (!!) ”Stowaway.” (a segment from the new V/H/S Beyond) Kate talks to me about the steep learning curve of making that short, the ca...

    51 min

  5. 1 OCT.

    214 – Lora Senf & The Infinite, Child-Friendly Void

    Send us a textRelease your inner child! …I mean through reading, not by letting it burst out of your stomach like some horrible sugar-coated xenomorph. Lora Senf can help. Her Blight Harbor Trilogy is a piece of magic, an umbilicus of imagination between the tired old grump that you’re halfway to becoming, and the wide-eyed wonder you once were. Lora and I talk about the challenge and reward of writing horror for kids, we talk about the influence of M.C Escher and h...

    1 h 10 min

  6. 24 SEPT.

    213 – Johnny Compton & Angels, Demons & Xenomorphs

    Send us a textMore devilish fun on Talking Scared this week when an old friend returns to talk about god, angels, demons and other things out there in the cold reaches of the universe. Johnny Compton is the author of The Spite House, one of my most admired books from 2022. In his newest, Devils Kill Devils, he starts with a compelling question – “what if your Guardian Angel was a murderous threat” – and then heads off in grander directions. We talk about how Johnny’s childhood...

    1 h 7 min

  7. 17 SEPT.

    212 – Keith Rosson & Punk Rock Death Songs

    Send us a textKeith Rosson is our first guest to be personally recommended by Stephen King! And the praise doesn’t stop there. Keith’s Fever House was one of the biggest hits of 2023, and now he’s back with the sequel, The Devil By Name, which takes the contained punk-rock fury of the first book in a whole different, nation-spanning direction. This is an epic tale of occult magic, diabolical messages, punk rock, political machinations and, eventually, apocalypse. So there’s a ...

    1 h 10 min

  8. 9 SEPT.

    211 – Laird Barron & Cosmic Background Radiation

    Send us a textLaird Barron is on the podcast. This feels like cause for celebration. Not only is Laird Barron a phenomenal writer. Not only is it wonderful that he’s back to writing and talking about writing. Not only am I lucky to be able to speak to him… We also talked about DOGS! Granted, a cybernetic, immortal monster hound called Rex – but a dog nonetheless. That’s just one of the crazy concepts that make up the stories in Laird’s new collection, Not a Speck of...

    1 h 11 min
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À propos

Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote them.

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  • Création
    Neil McRobert
  • Années d’activité
    2020 - 2024
  • Épisodes
    221
  • Classification
    Contenu explicite
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    © 2024 Talking Scared
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